As the 1:10 electric winter racing season kicks off, the Spektrum Off-Road Challenge, hosted by Trackside Hobbies in Brookfield, WI got things underway with over 300 entries for the three day event. Friday’s schedule had one qualifier with the three remaining rounds of qualifying on Saturday and concluding with main events on Sunday.
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Grid RC have announced that they will release a new motor mount for the Hyper 9e that will utilize the same eccentric style motor plate, as incorporated in their other mounts. This gives precise gear meshing and multi-hole mounting, and uses all six available mounting screws for a Tekin or four mounting screws for a Neu/Castle motor. What’s unique about this new motor mount, is the ability to gain access to the center differential without removing the mount and disturbing the motor.
Source: Grid RC [gridrc.com]
The organisers of the 2011 Arena Offroad meeting in Italy were in touch to announce the next running of the popular indoor event. Back after a break this year to make way for the Worlds in Thailand, it will take place from the 13th to the 16th of October at the Cowboys guest ranch in Voghera close to Milan. The event will once more play host to 1/8th gas buggy and gas truggy along with brushless buggy classes along with the Race of Champions on Saturday night with top drivers from around Europe expected to take part. Expect more details in the coming months.
View our report from the 2009 event here.
Nestled in the heart of Wisconsin, Trackside Hobbies plays host this weekend to the Spektrum Off-Road Challenge. Traveling from sunny Southern California to represent Team Associated is 1:10 electric ace, Ryan Cavalieri. Having ran exclusively 1:8 Buggy for the past few months, culminating with his “A” main finish at the 1:8 World Championship, Cavalieri pulled his Factory Team B4.1 and B44.1 off the shelf and laid down the fastest qualifying time in the first round of qualifying in 2wd and 4wd Modified. Not to be left out, Reedy’s very own Sean Cochran took his Factory Team SC10 to the top spot in the ultra-competitive SCT 17.5 class. With three more qualifiers on Saturday and the main events on Sunday, Cavalieri is off to a good start at what has become one of the largest indoor events in the country with 300+ entries
Source: Associated [rc10.com]
Round 4 of the KBRL Electric series was this past weekend in Tucson, AZ at Hobbytown USA. Team Losi Racing driver Ricky Gaynor was on fire in the 2wd Open Class with his XXX-CR, TQ’ing over the field. In the main Ricky used the TQ position to his advantage and checked out on the field in the 10 minute main with fellow Losi driver Billy Fischer finishing second ahead of Brian Kinwald in 3rd.
Source: Losi [losi.com]
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Having brought you details on the new TLR 22 2wd buggy from Team Losi Racing, our friends over at Live RC sat down and talked with product development manager Todd Hodge about the development process of this all new car as well as the new TLR branding. A second video below show Dustin Evans run the new 22 for the first time at the Scotty Ernst’s Spektrum race that is taking place as Trackside Hobbies this weekend.
View the TLR 22 race debut here
Pro-Line now offer their M3 Sniper buggy tire pre mounted on V2 white wheels. Using the same design philosophy and technology as the Hole Shot, but scaled up to work on looser and dustier track conditions the Sniper offers awesome forward traction and side bite on a variety of track conditions. The bigger pins also provide longer wear, giving you lasting traction through long A-mains. Suitable for Slash rear, Slash 4×4 & Blitz front or rear.
Source: Pro-Line [prolineracing.com]
DE Racing continue to extend their line of chassis skid and bump skid plates. The original manufacturer of this type of chassis protector, there is new skid plates for the Agama A8 Evo as well as the Hobao/OFNA Hyper 9 and bump skids for the Agama A8 Evo and the Serpent S811 Cobra.
